Improvement in clothes-drier



"tntted- States @met demise.

GRASSu LAKE, MICHIGAN.

MISSOURI, AND A.

S.. CAPRON, or

Letters lPatent No. 93,708, dated Augnst17, 1869.

.IIVIPROVEMENfL IN CLQTHESDRIER The Schedule referred tolin thesevLetters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it mag/ c onccrn:

Be it known that we, W. S. GRAVES, of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson, and State ofMissoul-i, and A. S. GAIRON, of Grass Lake, in the county of Jackson, and State of Michigan', have invented an Improved Clothes-Driel', and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledninl tlle'arb to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters marked thereon, making a part of this description, in which- Figure l is a perspective representation of our improved clothes-drier.

Figure 2, a vertical section of the lower part.

*"lhepresent invention relates tol an improvement in that class of clothes-driers which expel water by centrifugal force; and

Its nature consists in the novel construction of the rotating receptacle in which'the clothes are put, in combination with an outer receptacle for catching the water, as it is thrown out from them.

H represents an outer cylinder, which has a bottom,

I, and supports two standards, M, which sustain a.

frame,.L L. The object of this cylinder is to catch water as it is thrown out from the receptacle B.

This receptacle consists of a double bottom, E K. Thepart E being convex on the lower side, raises the wire-work B C so high above the bottom I ofthe cylinder H as to leave snicient space between the two lto receive what water comes from the clothes, and the part K being curved downward, to meet the part E, to which it is attached, forms a strong bottom, and readily allows water, settling down through the clothes, to pass out between the wires D C.

form, and it consists of a series of metal standards, G,

flange, B, projecting inward; and, also,'a series yof' metal hoops, D, soldered fast, or otherwise secured to said standards, to keep the clothes. far enough from ing al bearing in said frame.

clothes have a tendency to press into the corner D', while, at the same time, the flange B prevents them from rising out ofthe receptacle. v

The principle of drying or drainage by centrifugal anything in this respect; but

What we do claim, and desire Patent of the United States, is-

l A clothes-(hier, consisting of a double bottom, E K,

'tofsecure by Letters forth.

W. S. GRAVES. A. S. GAPRON.

Witnesses: i

I. C. FARGO, JNO. ANnERs0N.

` The periphery of the receptacle B has a truncated fastened to the edge 4of the bottom K 1f), and to a the centre of the receptacle, to have the water cxa-bevel-pinion, 5, which is driven by a wheel, P, hay- By means of this construction and arrangement, the

force is well understood; therefore', we do not clailn cylinder G, 'standards C, hoops D, flange B. and cylinder H, operated 'by shaft and gearing N I), as set l 

